Several members of Anh Do’s family had fought alongside American and Australian troops in the war. However, the war was eventually won by the North Vietnamese, who captured Saigon in 1975.
During the 1960s, the United States became increasingly entangled in the war, sending hundreds of thousands of troops to support the anti-Communist South Vietnamese forces. Beginning in 1954, the war was fought between Communist North Vietnam (which was supported by Communist powers such as China and the Soviet Union) and the non-Communist South, supported by capitalist, anti-Communist powers such as the United States and Australia. Anh Do’s incredible story of migration was precipitated by the Vietnam War, which led his family to flee their native country of Vietnam in 1980.
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